For drumming this lethal message into our heads media commissars are rewarded with lavish salaries, status and privilege. |
Like the pope and the Soviet commissars of old, Greenspan appears to have discovered the political usefulness of posing as infallible. |
There's an underlying ascription of bad faith to language writers, that they are somehow cultural commissars, in a sentence like that. |
Piedmontese commissars sent to Venice by Charles Albert were almost immediately withdrawn, and Manin assumed dictatorial powers. |
The armies in which the left-wing commissars remained influential had taken the old Taiping route to Changsha and Wuhan. |
Krementsov successfully portrays the scientists, their managers, the commissars and the local and national politicians. |